Gaming revenues surged at Stateline in April by 14.99 percent or $14.3 million compared to the same time in 2010. Statewide, casinos collected $806 million from gamblers, which is a 0.58 percent decline compared with $810.7 million collected in April 2010, according to the state Gaming Control Board which released the April data this morning. […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe city councilmembers were more concerned about dogs than tourist accommodation units when they approved the transfer Tuesday of 50 units to Stateline. The five had a lively discussion about whether a dog park should be part of a larger park on Bonanza Avenue where the former C&M Lodge sits. […]
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Vail Resorts Inc.’s fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 5.6 percent, with resort officials today underlining skier visits were up in Colorado and California, and declaring for the first time a quarterly dividend for stock investors. For the quarter ended April 30, the only publicly traded ski resort reported a profit of $76.9 million. This is up […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the August 1975 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. A look backward at earlier days in Lake Valley, an easy hour’s ramble through the pine trees, picking wild strawberries in a forest-surrounded meadow, a valuable find for the Museum, and a picnic was enjoyed by more than 30 Society members […]
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• Tahoe Youth & Family Services is closing its thrift shop Hope’s Closet on June 15. Sales are going on until then at the shop near the corner of Highway 50 and Tahoe Keys Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe. • Sierra Quilting Camps are July 11-15, Aug. 8-12 and Sept. 12-16 in Truckee. For more […]
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By Kathryn Reed Voters approved Measure G in 2008, but few have seen what their money has been spent on. This is because most people don’t have a student at South Tahoe High School and that is where the bulk to the work has been since construction began. The high school has been transformed and […]
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By Joanne Marchetta In the final hours of the 2011 Nevada state legislative session, the bill known as SB271 passed, bringing with it opportunities for the two states that bound Lake Tahoe to reinvigorate the spirit of compromise that created the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact more than 40 years ago. The bi-state consensus that brought […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s the best theater on the South Shore. That was the overriding sentiment heard Wednesday night as members of the Measure G Bond Oversight Committee toured the Theatre Arts and Design Academy that will welcome students in August at the start of the next school year. Also overheard were comments from committee […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Controversial grave markers at the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery in El Dorado Hills have been removed in preparation for installation of new markers. The original markers on graves relocated from the Negro Hill Cemetery in 1954 had to be changed because they substituted the racist N-word for Negro where they […]
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By Anthony York and Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Republican lawmakers are prepared to let voters decide whether to close California’s stubborn budget deficit with higher taxes in exchange for major changes in state spending, public pensions and regulatory policies. But a week before the legal deadline for a spending plan, and with […]
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